BA " Sorry to disappoint you but we are not looking for pilots."
" What we are looking for is a potentially good manager. To manage a multi million £/$ investment in equipment, a team, spending the companies £/$ and of course ensuring our guest are totally happy etc. We will of course teach such a recruit to fly."
Bit of a typically personnel comment. Yeah, I know it's "HR" now.
I flew for BA and also for another outfit whose primary requirement was that their captains could be trusted not to crash. They had it right. Safely flying the aircraft is much more important and demanding than learning a bit about company ethos and inter-personal relationships. In any case, by the time a first officer comes up for command he should have absorbed all the hotel management functions required of a pilot.
We'd the same thing in the RAF: "you're an officer first and a pilot second!" If you say so
